KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — College Football Hall of Famer Johnny Majors, the coach of Pittsburgh’s 1976 national championship team and a former coach and star player at Tennessee, died Wednesday. He was 85.
Majors died at his home in Knoxville, according to his wife, Mary Lynn Majors. “He ...

NEW YORK — If Major League Baseball and its players take the field for a coronanvirus-delayed 2020 season, it will be after acrimonious negotiations that resemble their labor war of a generation ago.
MLB rejected the players’ proposal for a 114-game regular season schedule with no ...

The metal detectors every sports fan has become accustomed to at the gate might soon be accompanied by thermal body scanners as part of the gargantuan task of preventing the spread of the new coronavirus and other airborne diseases.
And that might be just one thing the public will need to be ...

By WILL GRAVES
AP sports writer
PITTSBURGH — James Conner didn’t treat the quarantine caused by the COVID-19 pandemic as an obstacle, but an opportunity.
While the shutdown forced the Pittsburgh Steelers running back to cancel a couple of planned vacations, it also gave him time — a ...

The Ohio Valley Baseball League will open action Sunday, according to league president Laney Simone Sr.
The former Maynard manager said there are four teams in the league. They are the Barton Braves, Maynard Indians, Moundsville Expos and Weirton Bobcats. The Wheeling Cardinals ceased ...

Claude Giroux’s Philadelphia Flyers were the hottest team in the NHL back when hockey was still being played.
That was more than two months ago and their next game could be two more months away. He can’t predict how things might go if the season resumes.
“I don’t know,” Giroux ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — Scott Dixon, Alexander Rossi and the rest of the IndyCar drivers were in sunny Florida around spring break ready to start the season.
“We geared up, we had the offseason, we had done all the preseason testing ... you kind of had all that pent-up tension to get ...

NEW YORK — Baseball owners and players have reverted to form — the type displayed over the past half-century during eight work stoppages filled with salary squabbles.
Players proposed to resume the sport in the coronavirus pandemic with a 114-game regular season and full prorated ...